Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of November 15, 2021

The Newsmax Rising Bestsellers list will do more than stimulate your mind. These reads may challenge your beliefs, broaden your perspectives, excite your curiosities, or widen your imagination.

These books may not necessarily appear on the official New York Times list of bestsellers, but they're the ones our Newsmax audience is reading, talking about, sharing with friends, and buying.

Here are the Newsmax Rising Bestsellers for the week of November 15, 2021:

"Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden” by Chris Christie (Threshold Editions)

The former New Jersey governor and adviser to President Donald Trump plots a way of “recapturing Republican glory and winning elections again.’’

He says absurd grievances and self-inflicted wounds sabotaged Trump’s many successes and allowed Democrats to capture the White House, the House, and Senate in two years — a first for the GOP since the days of Herbert Hoover.

He calls for Republicans to reinvigorate the party’s core ideals and restore its integrity and success. (Nonfiction)

“The Clock and the Calendar: A Front-Row Look at the Democrats' Obsession with Donald Trump” by Doug Collins (Post Hill Press)

The former Republican congressman and pastor from Georgia reviews the impeachment of Donald J. Trump and claims it was merely a date with a destiny dreamed of by Democrats feeling the sting of bitter tears from Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential election. With a forward by Maria Bartiromo. (Nonfiction)

“Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19’’ by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley (Harper)

Chan, a postdoctoral researcher in medical genetics and synthetic biology at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and veteran science journalist Ridley, investigate the events of 2019 leading up to coronavirus pandemic.

They uncover what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories in China and bare records and data which were hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites. and clues coaxed from the very text of the virus’s own genetic code. (Nonfiction)

“Enjoying the Old Testament: A Creative Guide to Encountering Scripture’’ by Eric Seibert (InterVarsity Press)

Seibert, a Biblical scholar, asks if really possible to enjoy the Old Testament?

He says while Christians know they are supposed to read the Old Testament, many struggle to do so, finding it confusing, theologically troubling, or just uninteresting.

Here, he shows how one can learn to love the Old Testament and actually want to read it, with even the most seemingly dry passages coming to life. (Nonfiction)

“Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York’’ by Stephen J. Riegel (Syracuse University Press)

A new look at America’s most notorious disappearance. On Aug. 6, 1930, Joseph Crater, a state Supreme Court judge and rising star in the corrupt world of Tammany Hall Democratic politics in New York City, Crater hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway — and vanished into thin air.

Despite a decades-long international manhunt, he was never found. Drawing on new sources, including NYPD case files and court records, and overlooked evidence discovered years later, Riegel, a former federal prosecutor, pieces together what likely happened and why. (Nonfiction)